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The Jerusalem Conference

January 26-28, 2009 Shvat 1-3, 5769 Regency Hotel, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem

5th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

After The Winograd Commission:
Where Are We Going?


Celebrating The 60th Anniversary Of The State Of Israel & The 40th Year Of Reunited Jerusalem, Israel’s Eternal Capital


First Day

Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008

9:30 Morning Sessions

Greetings and Opening Remarks:

Robert Rechnitz - Chairman of the Jerusalem Conference
Chief Rabbi of Israel (Ashkenazi) Yona Metzger -

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs - Tzipi Livni

10:15-11:45 Opening Session

Jerusalem: Eternal Undivided Capital City - Definition of the Jewish State & Nation

Introducing the Chair: Alexander Machkevitch - Pres., EAJC

Participants:

Chairman: MK. Gidon Saar - Chairman Likud Knesset Faction
  • Ambassador Dr. Dore Gold - Pres., Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
  • Dr. Eilat Mazar - Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University, Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center's Institute for the Archaeology of the Jewish People
  • Prof. Eliav Shochetman - Professor, Shaarei Mishpat College of Law, Professor Emeritus Hebrew University Faculty of Law
  • Jeffrey Ballabon - Director, Coordinating Council for Jerusalem
  • Nir Barkat - Member, Jerusalem City Council
11:50-13:20

Iran, Syria, Lebanon & Gaza: Regional & Global Strategic Threat
- Drawing Red Lines & Required Responses

Participants:

Chairman: Major General (res.) Yaakov Amidror - VP of the Lander Institute, formerly head of the IDF National Defense College and IDF Intelligence Research Division
  • Major General (res.) Yom Tov Samiah - former CO IDF Southern Command
  • Dr. Meyrav Wurmser - Director, Center for Middle East Policy, Hudson Institute in Washington, DC
  • Prof. Raphael Israeli - Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University
  • Rear Admiral Norman T. Saunders, USCG (ret.) - Former CO US Coast Guard
11:50-13:20

Aliya – Is It Still Vital To Israel?

Participants:

Chairman: MK Yuli-Yoel Edelstein - former Minister of Immigrant Absorption
  • Rabbi Shalom Gold - Rabbi of Kehilat Zichron Yosef ,Jerusalem, and Founder and Dean of the Avrom Silver College and Center for Jewish Unity
  • Rabbi Shlomo Bakst - - Chairman Tikva Organization (Odessa)
  • Michael Freund - Founder and Chairman of Shavei Israel
  • Ambassador Danny Ayalon - Co-Chairman of Nefesh B’Nefesh
  • Yishai Fleisher - Program Director of Israel National Radio & Founder of "Kumah" Aliyah Movement
11:50-13:20

Social-Economic Welfare: Defining the Problem & Traditional Responses

Participants:

Chairman: MK Gilad Erdan - - (Likud Party)' Chairman Knesset Economic Affaris Committee
  • Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon - - Rabbi of Alon Shvut South & Chairman of "Ta'asuKatif"
  • Uriel Lederberg - - Chairman, Pa'amonim Organization
  • Noam Bedein - - Sderot Media Center
  • Daniel Doron - Director, Israel Center for Social & Economic Progress (ICSEP)
  • Itai Shonshein - - Chairman, National Union of Israeli Students
13:30 Noon Session
Speakers:
US Senator Sam Brownback - (R-KN)
Hon. Natan Sharansky - Chairman, Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies and Chairman, One Jerusalem
14:45-16:30 Afternoon Sessions

Do Israel, the United States and the West Face World War III?

Participants:

Chairman: Shoshana Bryen - Director, Special Projects, JINSA, Washington DC
  • Prof. Uzi Arad - Director, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya
  • Major General Harley C. Davis (ret.) - former CO of US Special Forces Command
  • Major General Bradley Mark Lott, USMC (ret) - Former Commander of the Marine Warfighting Center
  • Shabtai Shavit, - Former Director General of the Mossad, Chairman of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya
14:45-16:30 Afternoon Sessions

Palestinian Media, Education & the View from Israel

Participants:

Chairman: Dr. Uzi Landau - Former MK & Minister of Public Security
  • Itamar Marcus - Director, Palestinian Media Watch
  • Pinchas Inbari - Journalist, Arab & Palestinian Affairs
  • Morton Klein - President, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)
  • Daniel Seaman - Director, Israel Government Press Office
  • Lt. Colonel (res.) Dr. Anat Berko - Research Fellow, IDC International Institute for Counter-Terrorism
16:30-18:00

The Forgotten “Other Refugees” – Jews From Arab Countries

Participants:

Chairman: Hon. Yossi Ben Aharon - former Director General of the Prime Minister's Office
  • MP Prof. Irwin Cotler - Member of Parliament; Former Justice Minister, Canada
  • Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Zinni - Rabbi, Techinion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
  • MK Eli Gabai - (Ichud Leumi-Mafdal)
  • Prof. Shimon Shitrit - Dean, Sacher Institute for Law Research, Hebrew University, former MK & Minister (Labor Party)
16:30-18:00 Late Afternoon Sessions

Israel’s Growing Role On The World’s Economic Stage

Participants:

Chairman: Harvey Werblowsky - President, Power Legal Support, Inc.
  • Yaakov Neeman Esq. - Former Finance Minister
  • Ken Abramowitz - Managing Partner and co-founder of NGN Capital
  • Prof. Israel "Izzy" Borovich - Chairman, El Al Israel Airlines
  • Eli Kazhdan - CEO, CityBook Services Ltd. (for US real estate market)
18:00-20:00

The Winograd Commission: Ethics & Responsibility in Israeli Politics

Participants:

Chairman: Judge Tzvi Tal - Supreme Court Justice (ret.)
  • Rabbi Dr. Nachum Rabinowitz - Rosh Yeshivat Hesder "Birkat Moshe"
  • Major General (res.) Uzi Dayan - former Dep. Chief of Staff & head of NSC
  • Major (res.) Yakir Segev - leader of Post-Second Lebanon War protest movement
  • Yisrael Harel - Chairman, Institute for Zionist Strategies
  • MK Col. (res.) Otniel Shneller - Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (Kadimah)
  • MK Gilad Erdan - - (Likud Party)' Chairman Knesset Economic Affaris Committee
22:00-23:00 Concert for students

Second Day

Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008
9:30 Morning sessions

Greetings and Opening Remarks:

Robert Rechnitz - Chairman of the Jerusalem Conference

Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar - Rishon Lezion, Chief Sefardi Rabbi of Israel

9:45-11:30 General Session

Jerusalem: The Temple Mount and the Future of Jerusalem

Participants:

Chairman: Yechiel Leiter - Senior Policy Researcher - the Jerusalem Center for Public & State Affairs
  • Nadav Shragai - Journalist and author - Haaretz newspaper
  • Hon. Yoram Ettinger - former Minister for Congressional Affairs to Israel's Embassy in Washington, DC
  • MK Rabbi Meir Porush - (United Torah Judaism Party)
  • Rabbi Yisrael Ariel - Founder of The Temple Institute, Jerusalem
  • Nissim Arazi - Director, Jewish Quarter Development Corp.
  • Dani Dayan - Chairman, Yesha Council
11:45-13:15 Late Morning Sessions

Defensible Borders in the Age of Missiles

Participants:

Chairman: MK Yisrael Katz - Former Minister of Agriculture (Likud)
  • Brigadier General (res.) Binyamin Ben Eliezer - Minister of National Infrastructure (Labor Party)
  • MK Brigadier General (res.) Effie Eitam - (National Union Party)
  • Uzi Rubin - former head of Israel's Arrow-Homa Anti-Missile Defense Program
  • Arie Stav - Director, Ariel Center for Policy Research
  • Dan Diker - Project Director, Defensible Borders Initiative; Senior Policy Analyst, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
11:45-13:15

The New Anti-Semitism: NGO’s, the Campus Confrontation and Preparing for Durban II

Speaker: Minister Yitzhak Herzog - Minister of the Diaspora, Society and the Fight against Anti-Semitism

Participants:

Chairman: Prof. Gerald Steinberg - Professor of Political Studies, Bar Ilan University
  • Prof. Robert S. Wistrich - Director, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Hebrew University
  • Prof. Anne Bayefsky - Sen. Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington DC, Dir., Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust
  • Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld - Chairman, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
  • Rabbi Abraham Cooper - Associate Dean, The Simon Wiesenthal Center and The Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles
  • Charles Jacobs - Founder & Director, The David Project Center for Jewish Leadership

13:30
Speakers:
MK Benjamin Netanyahu - Likud Party Leader and Leader of the Opposition; Former Prime Minister
(via video) US Senator James Inhofe - (R-OK)
(via video) US Senator Joseph Lieberman - (I-CT)
14:45-16:45 Afternoon Sessions

Israel’s Strategic & Tactical Defense: Defining IDF Doctrine, Goals & Deterrence Capabilities

Participants:

Chairman: Col. (res.) Dr. Eiran Lerman - Director, Jerusalem Office of the American Jewish Committee
  • Major General (ret.) Yossi Peled - former CO IDF Northern Command
  • Major General (ret.) Doron Almog - former CO IDF Southern Command
  • Brigadier General (ret.) MK Prof. Aryeh Eldad - former IDF Chief Medical Officer
  • Major General (res.) Eitan Ben-Eliahu - former CO Israel Air Force
14:45-16:45

Israel’s Hasbara: The War of Words
- Just Confused or Deliberately Non-Existent?

Participants:

Chairman: Caroline Glick - Dep. Managing Editor & Columnist, The Jerusalem Post
  • Elyakim HaEtzni Esq. - former MK
  • Tzafrir Ronen - Israel Nahalal Forum
  • Nitzana Darshan-Leitner Esq. - Founder & Director, Shurat Hadin Israel Law Center
  • Melanie Phillips - Journalist and Author, Columnist for Daily Mail
  • Isi Leibler - Chairman, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs’ Diaspora-Israel relations committee.
17:00-19:00 Late Afternoon Sessions

Israel and the Media: Is Coverage Fair & Accurate?

Participants:

Chairman: Justice (ret.) Dalia Dorner - President, Israel Press Council
  • Prof. Eli Pollak - Chairman, Israel Media Watch
  • Jeff Jacoby - Columnist, The Boston Globe
  • Prof. Richard Landes - Professor of History, Boston University
  • Daniel Ben-Simon - Journalist, Haaretz newspaper
  • Amnon Lord - Editor, Makor Rishon newspaper
  • Roz Rothstein - Director, StandWithUs
17:00-19:00 Late Afternoon Sessions

Global Economic Stability & Funding Terrorism

Participants:

Chairman: Major (res.) Ayub Kara - former MK & Member of Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee (Likud)
  • Dr. Martin Sherman - Research Fellow, International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT)
  • Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld - Director, American Center for Democracy and the Center for the Study of Corruption & the Rule of Law, NY
  • Dr. Lt. Colonel (res.) Gal Luft - Executive Director, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS), Washington, DC
19:30 Closing Session

The "Jerusalem Address"

Speaker:
Professor Bernard Lewis - Professor Emeritus, Princeton University


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